Posted by: zanshin, 2009-01-26 07:50

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Date: 2009-01-26 (Monday)
The ruling of the Amsterdam appeals court to prosecute Geert Wilders fits into a trend
The big-mouthed politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated in 2002. The boisterous film maker Theo van Gogh was slaughtered by a Dutch-born Islamist on an Amsterdam street in 2004. The soft-spoken but clear-eyed member of Parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali was endlessly threatened, lived behind bulletproof glass and was essentially driven out of the country in 2006; she ended up in the United States. Now Wilders will be prosecuted for speaking his mind.
-- According to Diederik van Hoogstraten, correspondent for Elsevier magazine and the newspaper Volkskrant






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